Dave Grohl Quotes

I left for New York three days after graduation.

When I left Baltimore I put everything I owned in my dad's pick-up truck and drove cross-country to make it as a rockstar in L.A.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.

I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

I came to New York with two bags, my guitar and my laptop. I set my stuff down and immediately ran to an audition.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

I wanted to leave so much that when I heard I had a good offer to play and leave England, it was a case of me saying: 'I love it! Yes, let's go!'

I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.

When I left Liverpool, I knew had to leave. It was a big step but it was something I had to do. A lot of people asked if it was hard, it wasn't hard. It was something I needed to do to improve and get better as a footballer.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.